The Gun Counter

I saw an article at The Art Of Manliness about the best forgotten drugstore aftershaves.

I've decided to embark on an olfactory odyssey. I'm starting with the Pinaud Clubman. I'll try it for a few weeks, then get another one. I'll poll my family and whichever associates I think won't be weirded out by the question on how they smell.

The beauty of it is, they're inexpensive and readily available, so I should be able to run this non-scientific experiment pretty inexpensively. It should be fairly objective - I'll ask my subject to be honest because I'm not emotionally invested in any of them.

Here are the candidates:
Pinaud Clubman
Old Spice
Brut
English Leather
Aqua Velva
(Additions based on recommendations:)
Aramis
4711

Does anyone have any others to add for my consideration?

ETA: the article called aftershaves "exhilirating" and "bracing." Based on my first use this morning, I think that means they sting.

I just picked up a bottle of Old Spice last week.

Hai Karate

'be careful how you use it'

Aqua Velva. It's the only brand you ever need to know.

Aqua Velva, being mostly alcohol, is exceptionally useful at finding missed shaving nicks and at creating new dances when said alcohol meets said missed shaving nick.

Yesssssss. As it should.

I think that was the main purpose of aftershave, in an era when a nick could mean tetanus/staph, any other means of dying. (Old strongman writing mentioned meticulously cleaning your implements, and any cuts, after one of them died from lockjaw when scratched by one of his implements.)

+1

Grandad Arthur McLean died from an infection (pimple) on his face up near the temple.

That after being among the first to ship over in 1914 and serving/surviving thru 1918 in the trenches.

Pure by Eddie Bauer. Probably the only one I've found that I liked. Unfortunately it's not made anymore.

I have been using Aqua Velva for years. Mostly from habit, but my wife does like it.